“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” –James Baldwin.
“What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?” –Rollo May
“An artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.” –Wassily Kandinsky
“A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable…” –James Baldwin